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Treehouse

File Handling with PHP Course (How To)

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Overview

PHP can do so much more than include files. In this course we'll explore reading and writing files from a directory. We'll also take advantage of built-in parsing functions for working with common file formats to read and write CSV, XML and JSON data.

What you'll learn

  • Reading and Writing Files
  • Input/Output (I/O)
  • CSV
  • XML
  • JSON

Syllabus

Basic File Handling

We will explore different ways of interacting with data files. You'll learn different methods and use cases for reading and writing files in a directory.

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  • Directory and File Structures

    6:18

  • Including and Opening files

    6:24

  • Reading Files Into a String or Array

    3:55

  • Reading Files

    3 objectives

  • Writing Files Line by Line

    5:25

  • Writing Files All at Once

    5:05

  • Review Basic File Handling

    5 questions

Parsing Specific Formats

In this section, we will take advantage of the built-in functions that PHP offers for parsing common data types. We will read and write CSV, XML and JSON data to create a personal recommendations application.

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  • Personal Recommendations Project

    1:38

  • Reading CSV

    7:40

  • Writing CSV

    6:04

  • Review CSV

    5 questions

  • Reading JSON

    6:25

  • Writing JSON

    7:52

  • Review JSON

    7 questions

  • Reading XML

    8:21

  • Writing XML

    9:29

  • Review XML

    6 questions

  • Conclusion

    0:50

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